On Mar 12, 10:34=A0pm, Rob Jensen <ShutUp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:20:35 -0400, "David E. Milligan"
>
> <david...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> [A reviewer Milligan found doth sayeth:]
>
> >An argument could be made that Fox did fix the show going
> >forward, but its decision to air the original pilot despite its
> >barely matching the next episode in look or tone is just not
acceptable,
> >even if you want to play the fiscal card. It looks as if "The Return
> >of Jezebel James" was a casualty of the writers strike. Fox didn't
> >want to pay to reshoot the pilot because it lost faith
> >in the series' potential (which is also why it cut the episode order).
Then why bother airing the series at all in the first place??
> This is exactly why I've always described both RotJJ and New
> Amsterdamn as "pre-cancelled."
>
> >Since the network is going to win the season anyway, why not
> >burn off the series as is? Who knows, maybe it'll work, right?
>
> This is exactly why I've always described the airing of both RotJJ and
> New Amsterdam at *all* as being, in each case, a Hail Mary Pass.
Yeah, but it sounds like the network is saying that TRoJJ is a HMP
that is uncatchable to begin with, so why even bother watching this
train wreck???
See, when you debut a new series, you have to trumpet the POSITIVES of
the series, Fox, NOT the NEGATIVES. They need to take a class called
Series Debuts 101, FFS.
Duh...
> Of course, I've seen the first two episodes of New Amsterdam and it's
> a show that was solid in both of those two episodes -- so I wonder
> what Fox's problem with it was. =A0I now wonder what the differences
> between the pilot and second episodes of RotJJ will be like, but OTOH,
> it does beg the question that if the pilot of RotJJ really *is* THAT
> bad, why is Fox going ahead and airing the episodes *in* order in the
> first place?
Forget that question... here's a better one... why in the hell is Fox
bothering to show the pilot AT ALL if the second episode contains so
many potentially confusing and damning changes??? Or was that kinda
your point, Rob??
I don't get it... I truly don't.
This series SOUNDS like it had potential, but the execution of the
series is going to confuse the hell out of people, I fear. Viewers
probably won't come back after the second eppy (from the sound of
things, I'm not even sure right now that viewers will make it through
the entire second episode to begin with), so why not just START with
the second eppy and go from there???
Again, I don't get it. I truly don't.
I'm gonna end up being REALLY angry that GG got dumped for this crap,
aren't I???
--- Cory
>=A0It's not as if they didn't already have the bad habit of
> show episodes completely out of order for GOOD shows. =A0Is this
> something like, "You know Fox has no faith in the series when it shows
> the episodes IN order."[1] =A0([1] Does not apply to "24.")
>
> =A0 -- Rob
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